The hypocrisy of the United States government knows no limits. On April 18, a proposal was submitted to the United Nations ...

Full UN membership is crucial for a two-state solution or another outcome allowing for Palestinian self-determination.

Richard Gowan is the U.N. director of the International Crisis Group. From 2013 to 2019, he wrote a weekly column for WPR.

The UN Security Council was set to vote Thursday on a Palestinian bid for full membership -- a measure almost certain to fail ...

“Like it or not, a General Assembly vote on this issue is of political rather than legal weight,” Richard Gowan, the International Crisis Group’s U.N. director, told The Intercept.

Critics of U.S. policy, like former Lebanese ambassador Massoud Maalouf, argue that the leaked cables are proof of U.S. duplicity. Maalouf criticized the Biden administration on social media, saying, ...

Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Director for Policy at the Centre on International Cooperation at New York University. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres ...

Richard Gowan, an analyst at the International Crisis Group, told AFP that “the emphasis on development is a deliberate ...

The long-awaited independent report into the neutrality of UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, does ...

"I find it very hard to see the US swallowing this proposal." Richard Gowan, an analyst at the International Crisis Group, told AFP, noting that it took months for Washington to agree not to block ...

The Asia programme seeks to help Europe recalibrate its relationship with China and its Asian partners. The programme analyses China’s domestic situation, its role in the region, and its increasing ...